Electric-light-wire molding.



No. 678,544. Patented July le, |901.

. F. H. CDRDUAN.

ELEIITRIC LIGHT WIRE HOLDING.

(Application led Dec. 29, 1899. Renewed June 6, 1901.) (No Model.)

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arent FRANK H. OORDUAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN B; PEOK,OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters :Patent No. 678,544, dated July16, 1901. Application filed December 29, 1899. Renewed .Tune 6, 1901.Serial No. 63,421. (No model.)

To cir/ZZ whom t my concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK H. CORDUAN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, in thecounty of New York and State of New York, have invented certainnew anduseful Improvements in Electric-Light-Wire Moldings, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in electric-light-Wire moldings,such as are used for receiving and holding electric-light Wires.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved molding ofthis kind which is simple in construction, eftective in' use, can bemade by machinery in a single and con# tinuous operation,- and isinexpensive.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a Vpart of this specification, andin which like letters of reference indicate like parts in all the views,Figure l is a transverse sectional View through my improved molding.Fig. 2 is a face view of the under side of the same, the cap-moldingbeing removed. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of themolding.

The moldingAis provided With two or more longitudinal grooves B in itsunder side, into Which grooves the electric-light Wires a are placed andin which they are held by pivoted buttons O,- located at suitableintervals, and which, when extending transversely, extend under thewires, and thus hold them in place. As these buttons must not projectbeyond the face of the molding and must rest snugly on the wires a, ithas been customary to rout out a recess in which the button is pivoted,this recess being of uniform depth. This routing necessitates a secondoperation and requires that the molding be at rest during the routingoperation. In my improved molding I gouge out a recess D in the Wood Eremaining be-` tween the grooves B, and this recess increases in depthfrom its ends to its center and has a segmental or curved bottom. Thebutton C is pivoted by its pivot F to the center of the curved bottom ofsaid recess, as shown. The ends of the button can give or spring upwardsufficiently when turned in line With the length of the molding. Bymaking the recess D in this manner I am enabled to produce them by meansof arotary cutter in the same operation of moldingthat is to say, whilethe wood is being run through the moldingmachine to shape it and cut thegrooves B the rotary cutter can gouge out the recesses D in parts justpreviously molded Without requiring any rehandling of the wood or astopping of the molding-machine.

G is a cap-molding.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

An electric-light-wire molding provided with longitudinal grooves forreceiving the Wires and a recess in the wood between the grooves, whichrecess has a bottom curved in the direction of the length of themolding, the recess gradually increasing in depth from its ends towardthe center and a button pivoted to the bottom of the recess at thecenter of the same, substantially as herein shown and described.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,this 16th day of October, A. D. 1899.

F. Il'. OORDUAN.

Witnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, N. M. FLANNERY.

